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First-principles insights into the structure of the incipient magnesium oxide and its instability to decomposition: Oxygen chemisorption to Mg(0001) and thermodynamic stability

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Maximum entropy production, carbon assimilation, and the spatial organization of vegetation in river basins

Andrea Rinaldo

The spatial organization of functional vegetation types in river basins is a major determinant of their runoff production, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. The optimization of different objective functions has been suggested to control the adaptive be ...

Natl Acad Sciences2012

ECOS 2010 Volume I (Thermodynamics)

ECOS2010 - 23rd International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems, June 14-17 2010, Lausanne, Switzerland Ecoefficiency and renewable energy for a sustainable world + Developments, application ...

CreateSpace2011

Horava gravity versus thermodynamics: The black hole case

Sergey Sibiryakov, Diego Blas Temino

Under broad assumptions, breaking of Lorentz invariance in gravitational theories leads to tension with unitarity because it allows for processes that apparently violate the second law of thermodynamics. The crucial ingredient of this argument is the exist ...

2011

Network thermodynamics in the post-genomic era

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Keng Cher Soh

Network models have been used to study the underlying processes and principles of biological systems for decades, providing many insights into the complexity of life. Biological systems require a constant flow of free energy to drive these processes that o ...

Elsevier2010

Thermodynamics and Energy Systems Analysis; From Energy to Exergy

Daniel Favrat, Lucien Borel

The present book is the result of more than half a century of teaching and research in thermodynamics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne), known as the EPFL, in Switzerland. Its objective is to facilitate ...

Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes PPUR2010

Friction force: from mechanics to thermodynamics

Christian Gruber, Christian Ferrari

We study some mechanical problems in which a friction force is acting on a system. Using the fundamental concepts of state, time evolution and energy conservation, we explain how to extend Newtonian mechanics to thermodynamics. We arrive at the two laws of ...

2010

Thermodynamic assessment of the Cu-Ge binary system

Jian Wang, Christian Leinenbach, Alain Jacot, Shan Jin

The Cu-Ge binary system was assessed thermodynamically using the CALPHAD method through Thermocalc (R) software package based on the evaluation of all available experimental data from the published literature. The solution phases, including liquid, fcc, hc ...

Elsevier2010

A theoretical study of disorder and decomposition in multinary nitrides hard coatings materials

Björn Alling

The development of multinary nitrides materials has revolutionised the hard coatings industry over the last 20 years. Especially important materials systems in this matter have been TiAlN and CrAlN which shows higher hardness, better oxidation resistance a ...

EPFL2009

Modeling of amino acid nanofiltration by irreversible thermodynamics

Starting from the classical Kedem-Katchalsky model for filtration through membranes, we derive an equation to compute the permeate flux and the rejection of diprotic amino acid compounds. We discuss the influence of the pH, the viscosity and the feed conce ...

2009

Granular Thermodynamics

Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis

We present experimental evidence for a strong analogy between quasi‐2D uniform non‐equilibrium steady states (NESS) of excited granular materials and equilibrium thermodynamics. Under isochoric conditions we find that the structure of granular NESS, as mea ...

AIP2009